Lost Horse Press hosting book launch, signing

Community residents are invited attend a book launch, reading, and book signing to celebrate the release of “Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse”, edited by Grace Bauer and Julie Kane, and released recently by Lost Horse Press.

The reading features Sandpoint “Nasty Women Poets” Desiré Aguirre, whose poem “Dancing Horses” was accepted for publication in the anthology; as well as local literary friends and supporters, Rhoda Sanford; Pat Wentworth; Jackie Henrion; Suzen Fisken; and publisher, Christine Holbert. A selection of poems will be read; books will be available for purchase and a discussion will follow the reading. The event takes place at Evans Brothers Coffee on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 4 p.m. Admission is free and all are welcome.

This timely collection of poems speaks not just to the current political climate and the man who is responsible for its title, but to the stereotypes and expectations women have faced dating back to Eve, and to the long history of women resisting those limitations. The nasty women poets included here talk back to the men who created those limitations, honor foremothers who offered models of resistance and survival, rewrite myths, celebrate their own sexuality and bodies, and the girlhoods they survived. They sing, swear, swagger, and celebrate, and stake claim to life and art on their own terms.

The anthology includes work from Kim Addonizio, Jan Beatty, Kelly Cherry, Annie Finch, Alice Friman, Allison Joseph, Marilyn Kallet, Melissa Kwasny, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Jessica Mehta, Lesléa Newman, Nuala O’Connor, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Melinda Palacio, Jennifer Perrine, Marge Piercy, Lucinda Roy, Maureen Seaton, Rochelle Spencer, A.E. Stallings, Stacey Waite, Diane Wakoski, Müesser Yeniay, and a fabulous coven of other women’s voices.